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One thing we’ve noticed over the last couple of years, is how the standard of cosplay has improved at each rAge. Last year’s was no exception, and thanks to the passion of hundreds of local cosplayers united under the creative banner of LegionINK, we have this awesome music video to show you.

This rAge 2013 cosplay compilation was put together by local YouTuber Kyle Goulden. He’s done a stellar job at capturing as much of the incredible cosplay as possible – and really, there was a ton of awesome cosplay last year.

You can find the video after the jump. It’s great at doing two things: 1) getting us really excited for rAge 2014 and 2) reminding us that the country we live in can be really geeky when we want to be. Good job all you local cosplayers; and Kyle deserves a super-flying-high-five for the effort that went into this video.

You could smell the tension in the air. Or maybe that was just the LANners.

Wow, what a weekend! Showing Roxy’s Quest at rAge was one of the cartier replica most uplifting, exciting experiences of my life, and I’m glad that I was pushed to get the game done in time for the show.

We had some hiccups on the Friday; with the game being practically untested externally there were bound to be bugs and glitches, and boy did they come out. We had a few serious game-breaking bugs, but I worked my ass off that night to get them all fixed. Almost. I found myself putting out another build during the Saturday morning, but by 10am the game was running well. There were still a couple of cartier uk issues that cropped up but there was only a single instance of the game outright crashing from that point on. I call that a success.

A personal highlight of the rAge expo and one that I’ve looked forward to since last year’s one was trudging through the LAN area, looking for any awesome mods, old-school tech or just things that are completely insane -and for the most part, I found that again this year. But more importantly, I also unearthed some information that correlates with my personal view of thc computer industry and, oddly enough, to the findings of the most recent NAG Magazine survey. Although I didn’t draw the same conclusions last year as the trends were only beginning to form, this year I was paying more attention to what I was actually seeing.

A week or two ago I wrote a column about my advice for those going to rAge this year, despite the fact that I’ve never actually been myself.

Well, after spending the last three days at the Coca-Cola dome I’ve put that shameful title aside, and now consider myself an expert on the subject. Okay that may be a tad extreme, but modesty clearly isn’t in my wheelhouse.

Coming in to rAge with an open mind and not knowing what exactly to expect, I wanted to write my final rAge article on what I took away from the experience.

I hustled down to the Coca-Cola dome early this morning to beat the traffic and, more importantly, to catch the League of Legends finals happening at 9:30am.

Going in to the final there was a clear favourite; the Roccat team have not lost a game since… ever. Between last rAge and this one leading up to the finals, the unstoppable squad hadn’t dropped a single game.

Challenger Leash.LoL.DGC had quite the mammoth task on their hands, and a perfect undefeated record has to be intimidating.

Not exactly impossible however, as yesterday we saw clear favourite PandaTank get swept 3-0 in the Starcraft 2 finals; which wasn’t the only upset of the weekend either.

So at 9:30 sharp I took my seat in the DGL’s Spectator Lounge, waiting to see if David could take down Goliath.

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